Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1887-07-29

As matter Of COURSE this rape of the bank
was followed by litigation, eminent counsel be-
ing engaged ON both sidcs-Chnrlcs Hammond,
rated as the foremost jurist in Ohio, on behalf
of the State, and Henry Clay for the bank
After struggle that, doubtless elaborated the
mental force Of each party, the court decided
the question against the State. Upon that de-
cision the U. S, Marshal was ordered to demand
the restitution of the captured fund, When
The demand was made of Treasurer Sullivan,
he, learning that the court had not quail
fed the order SO as to indemnify him and his
surcties, refused TO comply with the order of
the court in the case, for which he was ud-
judged in contempt and ordered under arrest,
and to be imprisoned until further order of the
court
The Marshal, DIR. Hamm, who was an old
friend and distant relative of the Treasurer,
and also one of his bOndsmcn, did not feel called
upon to be very rigorous in the character OF the
Imprisonment, locked him in n room at the ho-
tel. When arrested he locked up the treasury
vault and carried the key with him. Mr.. Clay,
aware of the fact, accompanied the Marshal to
the room where the Treasurer was confined and
demanded the key of the treasury vault, and on
being again refused. said he should be compelled
TO use force to accomplish his purpose the
Treasurer replying that, as prisoner, he could
not use force 10 rcpcl the efforts of the agent of
the bank and the officer of the Court, and would
make no more resistance. Mr.. Clay, stepping
up took the key from the Treasurer's pocket,
and shortly afterward had the bank funds re.
moved from the treasury vault and on their way
10 ChillicOthc. Thus ended the farce of the first
struggle for States rights in Ohio. But it re-
uuircd twelve or fifteen years aftcrward of lob.
byng upon the part OF Judge Sullvan's friends
10 obtain law for the relief Of the Judge and
his bondsmcn from the obligations under which
they were resting on account of a fund to which
the State was not entitled.
After his return to GAINESVILLE, in 1927, he
was appointed postmaster for that ncipient
city, which in 1881 he resigned. He then en-
gagged, for n few years, in the mercantile bust
ness, from which he finally Withdrew, and be-
took himself TO the calm life of the farm espc-
ciully to horticulture, fo which he had always
manifested particular preference. He planted
two orchards-tle last one after he WAS seven.
ty-ilvc years of age. When asked how he
could so much interest himself in labors whose
fruits he could not expect TO live long enough 10
enjoy, ne gave the philosophic reply that we
were not working for ourselves only-that we
were serving as stewards for others, and that If
our predecessors had been governed by the re-
stricted views Indicated in the inquiry, the
world would not now be covered with good and
pleasant things.
Judge Sullivan was a self-educated man, but
well informed, and of nfTable anS genial man
ners. He was never charged with wrong to
anybody Recognizing the full measure of his
responsibility in moral duty he was rated by
those who knew him best us cminently n Just
man.
He was about five feet nine inches high, and
full formed, weighing probably one hundred and
seventy pounds. Before age began TO tell upon
him he was man of fine presence. He died
October H. 1888. Samuel Sullivan was the
grandfather of Hon. $. S. Cox and of w. S. Ide,
ESD of Columbus.